If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out,” Keith Hill tells the industry publication. “The reason is mainstream country radio generates more quarter hours from female listeners at the rate of 70 to 75 percent, and women like male artists. I’m basing that not only on music tests from over the years, but more than 300 client radio stations. The expectation is we’re principally a male format with a smaller female component. I’ve got about 40 music databases in front of me and the percentage of females in the one with the most is 19 percent. Trust me, I play great female records and we’ve got some right now; they’re just not the lettuce in our salad. The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females.

Oh, and by the way, Sweeney's current single "My Bed" is poised to be her second straight No. 1 song in Texas. I don't want to jinx it, but if it does hit the top spot, it will mark the first time in Texas Music history that a female has had two consecutive No. 1's.

Finally, here's to Keith Hill. Who may single-handedly, albeit inadvertently, bring an end to the sausage party that has become country radio.

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